THIS IS A RECOVERY VERSION OF THE POST INSTALL GUIDE AND THE PICS ARE MISSING, WE HOPE TO RESUME NORMAL SERVICE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!.

Sorry but the hyper links don't work in this window so you will have to scroll down manually to the section you want to view!. See the 2nd post in this thread from Swarfendor437, he has created downloadables with hyperlinks!.

List of topics covered by this guide:

Free Ubuntu User Manual and Adobe Reader for Linux here:General: Which includes "DVD" codecs and Graphic card drivers and a link for Zorin Lite Users.Security and Firewall:Change the language settings:Sound:How to work as "root" (make yourself root):Silverlight Clone (Pipelight) & native Windows Flash for Linux:Tweak Tools and single package manager: Which includes Dconf-Editor, Tweak Tool (AKA: Advanced Settings), Ubuntu Tweak and Gdebi single package installer.Extra Desktop Themes and themes in general:Recommended Reading:Open items with "Single Click":Desktop Screenlets:Add 32 Bit support on 64 Bit systems:Adding Printers:Adding other user accounts:Extra wallpapers:Gnome Shell:Adding icons to the Gnome 2 top panel including links for those that don't have a "Super (Windows) Key":More info about the AWN panel (Avant Window Manger)Unity privacy:Upgrading your installed system:Disable Ubuntu Apport error messagesFree AntiVirus protection for Linux from BitDefender and Avast:

IT IS IMPORTANT YOU FOLLOW THE UPDATE PORTION OF THIS GUIDE BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO MAKE ANY CHANGES TO YOUR SYSTEM, MAKE SURE IT IS FULLY UP-TO-DATE BEFORE YOU START!!!. CLICK ON THE LINK DIRECTLY BELOW THIS ADVISORY.

this How-To (guide) is for people who have successfully installed Zorin 6 Final and wish to do some post install configuration, these are my preferences, you must decide whether you wish to use the same settings/method as mine!. (Please do not confuse Zorin 6 Final with Zorin 6 Lite!!!. Zorin Lite users please go here for tips about the Lubuntu desktop: http://www.zoringroup.com/forum/viewtop ... f=5&t=4835 and: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation ) You can also use this guide for Zorin 8 as there are very few differences in the systems!.

If you do want to use the Windows 7 desktop; make sure you add another AWN panel (or install and use Docky!) and set it to the top of your desktop, if you don't, when you minimize an open prog, it may well disappear and you won't be able to access it again!!. It happened to me in a test version of Zorin 6RC in Windows 7 mode!!. Also you might want to add the package "awn-applets-all" which is a meta package for AWN but only for Zorin 6; NOT Zorin 8 !!!.)

To install the meta package I was referring to, open a terminal and paste this command:

Make sure you download the correct package for your system, from the available packages listed under the Ubuntu OS, either 32 or 64 Bit, or you can download the all.deb packages which work on both systems!. (Ubuntu 12.04 = Zorin 6 and Ubuntu 13.10 = Zorin 8)

2 links for the Avant Window Navigator (AWN) but I am not sure as to whether or not these links are still supported!:

You might get a message about language support pop up, you can ignore it for now.

Your current desktop should have the panel at the bottom, (When you start after first boot, your desktop will have the Win7 look!) click on the left button and type “look” in search, the Zorin Look Changer will appear, open it and select Gnome 2, your desktop should change automatically and you should now have a Gnome 2 desktop, log out and back in again just to make sure it works!!.

Click on “Applications” > “Accessories” and then drag “Terminal” to the top panel beside “Places”, Go to “Applications” “Internet” and drag “Google Chrome” to the top panel. Click on “Applications” > System Tools > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager and drag it to the top panel, start Synaptic and go to “Settings > File > Delete files after download so you don't have any rubbish (trash to the Yanks) in your cache after the installation of software.Now go to “Settings > Repositories > Zorin Software and mark all available boxes and make sure that the download location is set to “Main”, move to the next window “Other software, and do the same tick thing, now go to "Updates" and do the same again. Close the Software Sources window and click on “Reload” > “Mark All Upgrades” > “Apply” and let it do its thing, restart your PC after the updates have finished. (Updates may remain blank but are already listed in "Other Software")

Now install your graphic card drivers via the System Settings menu, right click on the top panel Computer Icon > “System Settings > Hardware > Additional Drivers" and select the “Recommended version for your card, install them (“Activate”) and restart your PC. (ATI and Nvidia only!)

In Zorin OS 8, the additional drivers tool is now intergrated in Synaptic, open Synaptic > Settings > Repositories > Additional Drivers and select the recommended driver, older ATI card drivers may not be available and I advise you to use the onboard drivers if you have an older ATI graphics card!.

For those who wish to use WiFi (Wlan), you may find that there are drivers listed in the tool if your WiFi adaptor was not automatically configured during install!.

Attention Nvidia card owners, there might be a problem with pages going blank on you, please see this link:

For the latest recommended Nvidia drivers, use the link above for deciding which driver to use!.

It is important to restart your PC in "Recovery Mode" after installing the drivers and select "Network" (Cable Only!!) and then run "DPKG" and after you have done the updates (Mesa, Xorg etc!), restart your PC with Ctrl + Alt + Del, don't click on "Resume" !!.

If the above doesn't work for whatever reason, as soon as you reboot your PC, start Synaptic > Reload > Mark All Upgrades > Apply and then restart your PC again!. (Yes! I know!!)

The default setting for the firewall is "OFF" (yes! I know), to switch it on, open System Settings > System > Firewall and simply throw the switch (password required!) to the "On" position, when you reboot, it will (should ) be active:

If you want to install a slighty better sound manager than the normal Ubuntu one, install the package "paman". You will find paman (Pulse Audio Manager) under the sound and video menu. Make a link on your taskbar (panel) or desktop!!.

Now you need to install a few packages which you will need to adjust settings on your PC, open Synaptic and type “dconf-tools” and mark it for install, do the same with “gdebi” and then click on “Apply”, once the packages are installed; close Synaptic. (gdebi is installed now by default!) (dconf-tools is the new configuration editor for Gnome 3 and gdebi is a single deb package install tool) In Zorin 8, "Tweak Tool" (Aka: Advanced Settings) is pre-installed and "Ubuntu Tweak" has been dropped but is still there in Zorin 6!!.

Dconf-Editor Settings:

Click on Applications > System Tools > Dconf Editor and drag it to the desktop (see below for info about adding icons to the desktop) and then double click it to open it. Once dconf has started you might want to make a couple of changes, the following are some important ones I used:

Show date and day in clock:Dconf Editor > Com > Canonical > Indicator > Datetime > Show Date/Show Day

Tweak Tool is a useful tool allbeit with limited usage outside of the Gnome 3 DE, it can be used to adjust the font size and change the desktop themes but will not do much else unless you are using the G3 DE. If you really want to customise your desktop; you would be better off with Dconf-Editor or Ubuntu Tweak!. The "Enable Dark themes Button" does not do anything in Win 7/Gnome 2 Look!!!.

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Gdebi:

gdebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does the same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages. To install a ".deb" package using gdebi, simply right click the downloaded package and "Open with" > Gdebi and let it do its thing, it will require your password unless you have made yourself "root".

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Ubuntu Tweak:

To add Ubuntu tweak via the terminal; paste the following commands; one after the other:

If you want a couple of extra themes, type “gnome themes” in Synaptic and install some or all of the available themes packages, make sure that the themes you are installing are labelled with gtk3 as gtk2 is the old gnome 2 system and won't work unless the theme says gtk2/gtk3. This will give you a few more desktop and window themes which you can change using Ubuntu Tweak or Tweak Tool. Remember that “Gnome Shell” themes/extensions won't work with Zorin 6/7 because “Gnome Shell” is only really for the Gnome 3 desktop!. You can install 3rd party themes from Webupd8 using the following command in a terminal:

If you want to open files/apps with a single click, you can do it one of 2 ways, for Zorin 6, open Nautilus (Your home folder) > Edit > Preferences > Behaviour > Single click to open items. For Zorin 8, open Nautilus (Your home folder) > Location options (The cogwheel at the very top right corner of your home folder) > Preferences > Behaviour > Single click to open items.

If any of you want to install a desktop screenlet; the best way to do it is to use the screenlets package with which you can select several screenlets for your desktop, paste the following command in a terminal to install the full screenlets range:

Open the app "HPLIP-Toolbox" which you will find under Systems Tools > Preferences and start the app, it will guide you though the set-up process, there are a couple of similar icons so watch out for that!!.

(You need the .deb packages for either 32 or 64 bit depending on your operating system!. The .alldeb packages work on both systems should they be available!)

Adding other user accounts:

you should also install the package "gnome-system-tools" which will add an icon in the main menu under "Users and Groups", armed with this tool you can setup accounts and how the guest accounts react with the OS, you can select how much access the guest has with regards to network or printing and other areas of the PC!!.

If you want extra wallpapers, open Synaptic and type “wallpaper” in search and mark all the packages that contain the word “wallpaper”, don't mark packages that say “Artwork” otherwise your splash screen will change!!. Afterwards, right click on desktop > Change Desktop Background and select your pic!!.

Gnome Shell:

If you want to install "gnome-tweak-tool", you must also install "gnome-shell", please be advised that ZorinOS 6 Core (you're okay with Zorin 8) was not designed with Gnome shell in mind although it works fine; with it installed. Please note that you use it (Gnome shell) at your own risk!!.

Now you can check to see if the language packs updated, open > System Settings > Language Support, if a message doesn't appear straight away, you are okay for language support, you can of course add or remove languages too.

I did mention about adding icons to the top panel by simply dragging them, this is how to do it in one hit.

Press Alt +Super (Windows key) then right click on top panel > Add to panel > Application launcher > then add the icons you want from the list.

To remove icons: Alt + Super > right click over icon you want to delete then on "Remove".

Adding icons to the desktop:

In Gnome 2 look: Press Alt +Super (Windows key) then right click on top panel > Add to panel > Application launcher > then drag the icons onto the desktop and once done, right click the desktop and on "Organise Desktop By Name" to tidy them up.(If your PC doesn't have a "Super (Windows) Key", please see the following:

If you add icons to the desktop by dragging them or right click and add to desktop, you may only have a white blank icon, right click on the icon and then on properties and permissions, then put a tick in the box "Execute". This will allow you to run the app directly from the desktop.

More info about the AWN (Avant Window Manger)

If your clock is not showing correctly in the bottom right of the AWN panel, open Tweak Tool > Theme > Gtk+ Keybinding Theme and change it to "Emacs":

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With regard to AWN (Avant Window Manager) in Win7 look, it may crash the "Clock" panel (Indicator 3 Applet) on a restart after an update and all you need to do is right click the panel > dock preferences > applets then add (or make sure) that the following applets are showing in the bottom section window (Active Applets), you should take it slow as some of the applets have similar names:

"Whoops! the applet crashed. Click to restart it", if you see this message and a grey icon on the left, and the applet doesn't restart; you can simply right click on the bottom panel and select "Dock Preferences" > "Applets" > "Available Applets" > then look for the icon "Zorin Menu" which is all the way down at the bottom, simply double click it or drag it to the "Active Applets" box at the bottom of the window, if you double click it, it will automatically be set on the right, if you want it on the left, left mouse click it and drag it over to the left hand side of the Active Applets box, done!!.

For a top panel should you want one, the only item you need to add to the active applets box is "Launcher/Taskmanager" then you can drag any icons to the top panel that you need.

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Changing default start button icon:

Right click > Start Button > Preferences (not Dock Preferences) > Button Selection > Install > then point it to the image. (or use the ones in the small list when you click on the right hand button in "Button Selection").

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Adding applets to the taskbar:

Right click AWN panel > Dock Preferences > Applets and select the applet you want with a double click or mark it and click on the down arrow beneath the right window pane.

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For adding missing objects in the main menu, right click on the Zorin button > Edit and you can edit entries to the menu at will. Clicking on the list on the left of the menu will show each sub group and you just need to add a tick in the box!.

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There is no edit option in Zorin 8, install the package "alacarte" and once installed, to start it simply open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and type:

If you close the terminal afterwards, AWN will close again, press Ctrl + Alt + Del and then log out and back in again and it should be there assuming you set it to start automatically as I described above.

Re-install AWN:

if your AWN panel is completely screwed up, open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + t and paste the following command:

If for some reason you have a blank menu in Zorin 6, this is most likely caused by the Nvidia X Server Settings menu, right click the Zorin button > Edit > System Tools > Administration and take out the tick for the Nvidia menu. This has not happened to me using Zorin 7!!.